In Therapy
Buffy Davis and Simon Tcherniak explore the therapeutic relationship, with poetry and prose from Emily Dickinson, Caroline Bird, Peter Shaffer and Thomas Mann.
Over the last decade, we have turned in increasing numbers to talking therapies in order to try and make sense of ourselves, our mental health and our world. Featuring the words of some of the psychotherapeutic profession鈥檚 most significant figures (Freud and Jung) as well as poetic reflections on the healing process from a host of young British poets, this edition of Words and Music explores how writers from a variety of ages have examined stories of self and suffering. Music by Charles Mingus and Anton von Webern is treated to psychoanalytic reading, while John Dowland鈥檚 call, 鈥渓end your ears to my sorrow鈥�, suggests that the desire to be heard and understood is not so new a feeling. Participating in our radio therapy sessions are readers Buffy Davis and Simon Tcherniak.
Readings:
Caroline Bird - A Surreal Joke
Joe Dunthorne - I Decided To Stop Therapy
Anna Freud - Problems of Technique in Adult Analysis
Robert Pinsky - Essay on Psychiatrists
Batsheva Dori-Carlier - Couples Therapy (translated by Lisa Katz)
Gael Turnbull - It Was As If
John Milton - Samson Agonistes
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain (translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter)
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
C.G. Jung - Modern Man In Search Of A Soul
Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Peter Shaffer - Equus
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Edmund Pollock - Edmund Pollock - Liner notes to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
Hans & Rosaleen Moldenhauer - Anton Von Webern, a Chronicle of His Life and Work
Emily Berry - Picnic
Nadia Lines - Talking to my Therapist about Climate Anxiety
Theresa Lola - Two Photographs
Emily Dickinson - After great pain, a formal feeling comes 鈥� (372)
Produced by Phil Smith
A Reduced Listening production for 麻豆社 Radio 3.
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00:02Henry Purcell
Music for a while
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Caroline Bird
A Surreal Joke, read by Simon Tcherniak
Joe Dunthorne
I Decided To Stop Therapy, read by Simon Tcherniak
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00:05John Cage
Suite for toy piano
Performer: Steffen Schleiermacher.![]()
00:06Gus Cannon
Walk right in
Ensemble: The Rooftop Singers.Anna Freud
Problems of Technique in Adult Analysis, read by Buffy Davis
Robert Pinsky
Essay on Psychiatrists, read by Buffy Davis
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00:11Matthew Locke
Dance of the furies (Psyche)
Ensemble: New London Consort. Conductor: Philip Pickett.Batsheva Dori-Carlier, translated by Lisa Katz
Couples Therapy, read by Simon Tcherniak
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00:14Loudon Wainwright III
Therapy
Performer: Loudon Wainwright III.Gael Turnbull
It Was As If, read by Buffy Davis
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00:20Robert Schumann
Fast zu ernst [Kinderszenen, Op.15]
Performer: Martha Argerich.John Milton
Samson Agonistes, read by Simon Tcherniak & Buffy Davis
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00:23John Dowland
Lend your ears to my sorrow
Performer: Anthony Rooley. Ensemble: Consort of Musicke.Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter
The Magic Mountain, read by Simon Tcherniak
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00:24Johann Sebastian Bach
Kommt, ihr angefochten Sunder (Cantata no.30)
Ensemble: JS Bach-Stiftung. Conductor: Rudolf Lutz.麻豆社, 1979
Fawlty Towers: Season 2, Episode 2
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00:30Sagreras
El colibri
Performer: John Williams.Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar, read by Simon Tcherniak
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00:32Morton Gould
Jekyll and Hyde variations
Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn.C.G. Jung
Modern Man In Search Of A Soul, read by Buffy Davis
Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, read by Simon Tcherniak
Peter Shaffer
Equus, read by Simon Tcherniak & Buffy Davis
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00:39Phil Durrant
The First Bud
Performer: Phil Durrant. Performer: Lee Patterson. Performer: Paul Vogel.![]()
00:41Bessie Jones
Go to sleep, little baby
Performer: Bessie Jones.Interview with psychotherapist Caroline Hickman
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00:43George Crumb
Dream Sequences
Ensemble: Ensemble f眉r Neue Musik Z眉rich.William Shakespeare
Hamlet, read by Simon Tcherniak & Buffy Davis
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00:46Charles Ives
Tom sails away
Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Gerald Finley.Edmund Pollock
Liner notes to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus, read by Buffy Davis
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00:50Charles Mingus
Duet solo dancers
Performer: Charles Mingus.Hans & Rosaleen Moldenhauer
Anton Von Webern, a Chronicle of His Life and Work, read by Simon Tcherniak
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00:57Anton Webern
6 Bagatelles for string quartet, Op.9
Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.Emily Berry
Picnic, read by Buffy Davis
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01:00Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.1 in D major (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jacek Kaspszyk.Nadia Lines
Talking to my Therapist about Climate Anxiety, read by Nadia Lines
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01:04Trad.
Motherless Child
Ensemble: The Harmonizing Four.Theresa Lola
Two Photographs, read by Simon Tcherniak
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01:07Alice Zawadski
Low sun; lovely pink light
Performer: Alice Zawadski.Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes 鈥� (372), read by Buffy Davis
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01:11Gil Scott鈥怘eron
I think I'll call it morning
Performer: Gil Scott鈥怘eron.Broadcast
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